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Close Readings

Close Readings


Close Readings

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Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for free here, and extracts from our ongoing subscriber-only series.How To SubscribeApple Podcast users can sign up directly here: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqFor other podcast apps, sign up here: lrb.me/closereadingsClose Readings PlusIf you'd like to receive all the books under discussion in our 2024 series, and get access to online seminars throughout the year with special guests and other supporting material, sign up to Close Readings Plus here: https://lrb.me/plusRunning in 2024:On Satire with Clare Bucknell and Colin BurrowHuman Conditions with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes EdwardsAmong the Ancients II with Emily Wilson and Thomas JonesThere'll be a new episode from each series every month.Get in touch: podcasts@lrb.co.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Medieval LOLs: Dame Syrith

As Mary and Irina discussed in the previous episode of Medieval LOLs, fabliaux had an e...

34 minutes
May 18, 2024

Human Conditions: ‘A House for Mr Biswas’ by V.S. Naipaul

In A House for Mr Biswas, his 1961 comic masterpiece, V.S. Naipaul pays tribute to his ...

10 minutes
May 10, 2024

On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'

In The Beggar’s Opera we enter a society turned upside down, where private vices are se...

12 minutes
May 04, 2024

Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery...

36 minutes
Apr 28, 2024

Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides

In the fifth episode of Among the Ancients II we turn to Greek lyric, focusing on Pinda...

11 minutes
Apr 24, 2024

Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux

Fabliaux were short, witty tales originating in northern France between the 12th and 14...

34 minutes
Apr 18, 2024

Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt

In the fourth episode of Human Conditions, the last of the series with Judith Butler, w...

11 minutes
Apr 10, 2024

On Satire: The Earl of Rochester

According to one contemporary, the Earl of Rochester was a man who, in life as well is ...

13 minutes
Apr 04, 2024

Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats

Yeats’s great poem about the uprising of Irish republicans against British rule on 24 A...

33 minutes
Mar 28, 2024

Among the Ancients II: Herodotus

Some of the most compelling stories of the Classical world come from Herodotus‘ Histori...

10 minutes
Mar 24, 2024